- Category : News
- Author: Jamie Ensor
New Zealand's reputation in international media for having one of the world's leading COVID-19 responses has been put in doubt by a quick increase in cases months after it began a strict alert level 4 lockdown.
Having already plummeted from the top spot to number 38 in Bloomberg's COVID Resilience Rankings - attributed to the Delta outbreak and relatively slow vaccination rollout - international media have also taken to spotlighting the country's large rise in infections.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Category: News
- Hits: 11
Read more: International media paints grim picture of New Zealand COVID outbreak
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/coronavirus-international-media-paints-grim-picture-of-new-zealand-covid-outbreak.html
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
That's what happens when you get absolute fuckwits breaking the rules, and the police force not given the power to truly enforce. You are lucky I am not in charge because if you break the rules and law set out you would be charged with bio-terrorism.
Also the mis-infomation that has spread like wild fire on the net is not helping either.
- Category : News
- Author: Michael Morrah
A crew member on a New Zealand warship conducting military exercises in the South China Sea has tested positive for COVID-19.
The infected sailor, who is vaccinated, is onboard the Navy's frigate, the HMNZS Te Kaha.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Category: News
- Hits: 11
Read more: NZ sailor tests positive for COVID-19 amid South East Asia wargames
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/10/nz-sailor-tests-positive-for-covid-19-amid-south-east-asia-wargames.html
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Category : News
- Author: David Rising
After sending a record number of military aircraft to harass Taiwan over China’s National Day holiday, Beijing has toned down the saber rattling but tensions remain high, with the rhetoric and reasoning behind the exercises unchanged.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Parent Category: News
- Category: Politics
- Hits: 7
Read more: Taiwan: US-China conflict unlikely, but experts say a miscalculation could spell disaster
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300430891/taiwan-uschina-conflict-unlikely-but-experts-say-a-miscalculation-could-spell-disaster
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Category : Defence
Three crewmembers of a Royal Australian Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter are safe after ditching their helicopter in the Philippine Sea during a routine flight overnight.
The aircraft was operating from HMAS Brisbane as part of a Regional Presence Deployment with HMAS Warramunga, when the crew conducted an emergency landing in the water.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Parent Category: News
- Category: World
- Hits: 9
Read more: RAN MH-60R Seahawk helicopter ditches in the Philippine Sea
- Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/ran-mh-60r-seahawk-helicopter-ditches-in-the-philippine-sea
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Category : Defence
- Author: Soli Middleby, Anna Powles and Joanne Wallis
The Australian government often describes Australia and New Zealand as ‘natural allies’. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of the AUKUS security partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom on 16 September—which he described as ‘a forever partnership for a new time between the oldest and most trusted of friends’—raises questions about the changing dynamics of Australia’s natural alliance.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Parent Category: News
- Category: Politics
- Hits: 13
Read more: AUKUS adds ambiguity to the Australia–New Zealand alliance
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-adds-ambiguity-to-the-australia-new-zealand-alliance/
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Category : News
- Author: David Engel
Amid the commentary on Australia’s handling of France over the decision to switch to nuclear-powered submarines, Canberra’s treatment of another close partner and the reaction that has caused have received relatively scant attention.
The Australian government’s dealings with Indonesia on the submarines and AUKUS was no less maladroit.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Parent Category: News
- Category: Politics
- Hits: 12
Read more: AUKUS and Australia–Indonesia relations: 2+2 clever by half
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-and-australia-indonesia-relations-22-clever-by-half/
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
- Category : Defence
- Author: Sam Sachdeva
As the US and China spar over maritime clashes in the South China Sea, New Zealand has set out its view of some of the issues at play – with a viewpoint unlikely to find favour with Beijing
New Zealand has weighed in on long-running and heated territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with a carefully-worded diplomatic note that nonetheless sets the country in opposition to Beijing.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Parent Category: News
- Category: Politics
- Hits: 24
Read more: NZ wades into South China Sea dispute
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-wades-into-south-china-sea-dispute
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
Since this article, New Zealand sent HMNZS Te Kaha and HMNZS Aotearoa and sailed the South China Sea with the UK Carrier Strike Group 21. #UKCSG21. This also sends a message to China (a bit heavier than a diplomatic note) of where NZ stands on the South China Sea, the 9 Dash Line and freedom of navigation...
- Category : News
- Author: Reuters
Standing beside North Korea's largest missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said his country's weapons development is necessary in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military buildup in South Korea, state media said on Tuesday.
- Details
- Written by NighthawkNZ
- Category: News
- Hits: 26
Read more: Flanked by missiles, North Korea's Kim says U.S. and South Korea threaten peace
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/453467/flanked-by-missiles-north-korea-s-kim-says-u-s-and-south-korea-threaten-peace
- :
- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
Subcategories
Politics
General Politics
Defence
General Defence Articles
Science
Sciencey stuff
World
World News
Page 1 of 556
SP Poll
Latest Articles
- International media paints grim picture of New Zealand COVID outbreak
- NZ sailor tests positive for COVID-19 amid South East Asia wargames
- Taiwan: US-China conflict unlikely, but experts say a miscalculation could spell disaster
- RAN MH-60R Seahawk helicopter ditches in the Philippine Sea
- AUKUS adds ambiguity to the Australia–New Zealand alliance
- AUKUS and Australia–Indonesia relations: 2+2 clever by half
- NZ wades into South China Sea dispute
- Flanked by missiles, North Korea's Kim says U.S. and South Korea threaten peace
- Covid-19: Charges laid in new case of Aucklander allegedly travelling to Wānaka
- ‘Worst is yet to come’: Chinese media issues fresh threats of trade strikes against Australia
- Police warned people may be getting vaccinated on behalf of others
- Facebook to change rules on attacking public figures on its platforms
- Coronavirus: China tells WHO to look in 'other places' for origin of COVID-19
- China reacted with restraint to the appearance of the largest AUG off its coast
- Astronomers discover something invisible near the centre of the galaxy that's blasting out mysterious signals
- How many formal defence allies does New Zealand have?
- Taiwan is becoming a flashpoint for China and the West – how does New Zealand respond?
- School board chairman resigns abruptly after Covid vaccine made mandatory for teachers
- The Interview: Andrew Bridgman, Secretary of Defence
- Government wields biggest stick yet with 'no jab, no job' policy in health and education